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Mine is by company called Belkin, it’s cheap and cheerful and has zero network capabilities. I absolutely don’t want my dishwasher to be smart.

I’m sure that’s the vision but I’m not entirely sure that Elon Musk is the man to bring it about.

He’s only got security clearance because he’s a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.

Just don’t have interest but who exactly is the optimist robot marketed at? Like we all know that it doesn’t work without remote control so who’s gonna buy it.

The thing is Google was already pretty good at that before things like chat GPT came out.

I remember many years ago I searched for “that movie where they steal a painting by changing the temperature” and Google got it on the first hit. That was way before AI.

I would have no problem with AI if it could be useful.

The problem is no matter how many times I’m promised otherwise it cannot automate my job and talk to the idiots for me. It just hallucinates a random gibberish which is obviously unhealthful.

A general strike doesn’t last for weeks. A strike and a general striker different things.

Striking workers are trying to change business decision, but if everyone participates in a general strike it causes enough damage in a day that it’s effective. The threat is you’ll do it again if things don’t improve.

Yeah they’re going to have squads armed I’m to the teeth ready to just raid the stadium. The trying for violence

That’s why they had to import some from Venezuela.

How much food do you need to eat in 24 hours that this is a concern for you?

I don’t buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don’t really mind buying an expensive flagship.

The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

We’ll have to wait and see what they’re availability is like and if they offer bulk ordering but I’d be very interested to use these as our work phones. Currently we use iPhones and I’ve never been happy with that decision.

Probably a purist complaining it’s not the fabled mythical Linux phone.

It literally has every feature of a modern smartphone. And it’s not even that expensive.

If I had a need for a new phone right now I’d be buying this.

What are you using right now because every Linux phone I’ve ever seen has been an unfinished working program that isn’t commercially ready.

Have you tried being rich? I highly recommend it.

Yeah but they also threatened to invade Greenland / Iceland (because apparently they’re the same country). That didn’t end up happening so I don’t think Canada has a lot to worry about.

I feel like this probably more crows than people in quite a lot of places.

He’s just an objectionable little squirt. If it weren’t for Trump the world wouldn’t feel the need to pay any attention to him. It’s not like he even has particularly clever plans he just insinuates himself into whatever catastrophe his father-in-law is currently engaged in.

In another universe he is probably in some massive open plan investment bank office trying to sell dodgy shares.

Because everyone else will expect money for the land. But it’s easy to steal from dead people.